Next3
ACLs and arbitrary security attributes (Linux 2.6 and later) | |
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Transparent compression | No |
Transparent encryption | No (provided at the block device level) |
Data deduplication | No |
Other | |
Supported operating systems | Linux |
Next3 is a
Background
A snapshot is a
Features
Snapshots
An advantage of copy-on-write is that when Next3 writes new data, the blocks containing the old data can be retained, allowing a snapshot version of the file system to be maintained. Next3 snapshots are created quickly, since all the data composing the snapshot is already stored; they are also space efficient, since any unchanged data is shared among the file system and its snapshots.[2]
Dynamically Provisioned Snapshots Space
The traditional Linux
Compatibility
Since Next3 aims to be both
Performance
When there are no snapshots, Next3 performance is equivalent to ext3 performance. With snapshots, there is a minor overhead per write of metadata block (copy-on-write) and a smaller overhead (~1%) per write of data block (move-on-write).[5]
Next4
As of 2011, Next4, a project for porting of Next3 snapshot capabilities to the Ext4 file system, is mostly completed. The porting is attributed to members of the Pune Institute of Computer Technology (PICT) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.[6]
See also
References
- ^ The maximum number of inodes (and hence the maximum number of files and directories) is set when the file system is created. If V is the volume size in bytes, then the default number of inodes is given by V/213 (or the number of blocks, whichever is less), and the minimum by V/223. The default was deemed sufficient for most applications. The max number of subdirectories in one directory is fixed to 32000.
- ^ a b c Corbet, Jonathan. "The Next3 filesystem". LWN.
- ^ Next3: Ext3 with snapshots. The H Open. June 11, 2010
- ^ Shread, Paul (June 8, 2010). "CTERA Adds Data Protection to Linux File Systems". Retrieved 9 June 2010.
- ^ "Next3 FAQ". Archived from the original on 2012-07-05.
- ^ NEXT3 Filesystem Home Page